Samuron

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  1. Yeah the la leche league upped the age of breastfeeing to 7 I believe. It does sting when people say that you don't

    "earn" your child by natural birth and breastfeeding. I couldn't breastfeed my first because we both got an infection and almost died and yet I was still lectured for not breastfeeding her so I can definitely sympathize with your wife.

    Yeah, and postpartum depression doesn't help.

    The point is, having a baby is about having a baby; if you and the baby are healthy, no one has any place to criticize how you did it.

  2. Put herself through or was told by others who had?

    She put herself through it because, while in the depression that can follow birth, she bought into the idiocy that she was somehow "less of a mother" because she was unable to produce milk, and it really tore her up.

    Fortunately, we were able to get past such notions, though I came awful close to gunning down some La Leche people.

  3. Because it makes you feel like a failure when you don't even attempt it and all you hear is oh you wouldn't know you never gave birth naturally....People question your value as a human being based on it...

    Which is the same sort of crap that my wife put herself through because she coudn't breastfeed; IMO it is nothing more than the female equivalent of "macho **".

    If anyone ever says that you're less of a person for not going through it "naturally" wait until they have a kidney stone and chide them for taking painkillers.

    Regardless, the birth process has one purpose: the safe delivery of a healthy baby. If one needs to prove their self worth through excruciating pain, there are other methods available.

  4. And that's what I mean....I've never had a "natural" and this child is my last chance to try. Im eligible but it's easier for everyone else concerned for a repeat c-section.....and even though a man may be a father he does not know how painful a decision like that is for a woman...take my chances at trying or spending the rest of my life feeling "incomplete".

    While I agree that caesarian sections may be performed for non-medical reasons, I fail to see how feeling "complete" about the birthing experience should have any bearing whatsoever on bringing a human being into the world.

  5. From the firethegrid.org website:

    For the past two and a half years light beings have been communicating with me frequently. At first, I was very uncomfortable with this, as it was so foreign to what I believed and how I lived. But as time has gone on, I have grown enormously in my faith in our creator, and my belief that there is much more to life than what we generally physically experience. There are other dimensions that are just as real as ours. And there are forces of good that truly want to help us

    The light beings have explained to me that we are all connected by Source energy. This connection has a grid-type configuration, so to make things simple, I'm just calling it "the Grid." There are small grids connected to the large grid. For instance, each species of animal has its own grid. This allows easy communication between animals. I'm sure you've wondered how salmon know when to travel upriver to spawn, or how monarch butterflies all know to fly to Mexico, or geese to fly in perfect formations. Their connection to their grid allows them to know where to go and when to go. In the Asian tsunami very few animals died. That is because they were informed through their grids that danger was coming.

    Human beings chose many thousands of years ago to disconnect themselves from a collective grid, so that they could have free will. This severance has allowed us to make our own decisions and be independent. But it has also allowed us to make many mistakes which have adversely affected this planet. And it has made our direct communication with The Source more difficult. We are now at a turning point when our disconnection could mean the end of the earth as it now exists.

    While I absolutely support the right of any person to believe whatever they want, I am personally astounded that anyone could take this seriously.